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Men who never get carried away should be. -- Malcolm Forbes
It's easy to get carried away with yourself. -- James Nesbitt
People who never get carried away should be. -- Malcolm Forbes
I am not allowing myself to get carried away. -- Damon Hill
If listeners aren't carried away to Heaven, I'm failing. -- La Monte Young
I still like to get carried away - but passively. -- Robert Plant
In Israel we tend to be carried away by our emotions. -- Ehud Olmert
I am prone to get carried away thinking about creative projects. -- Michael Sheen
A writer falls in love with an idea and gets carried away. -- Doris Lessing
You are lucky that I can't sing tonight because I might get carried away. -- Julie Harris
Human nature is you get carried away, so we have to protect ourselves from ourselves. -- David Blunkett
My parents never got carried away with the extraneous elements of being in the business. -- Haley Joel Osment
A lot of young chefs today get carried away by trends, by influences, by movements. -- Daniel Boulud
What if we all suddenly get carried away thinking - who will be left to act? -- Andrei Platonov
We damaged all the big guns we could, and carried away the powder and the lead. -- Chief Joseph
The President never intends to get into any kind of war situation. He gets carried away by events. -- Alan Alda
We believe it is bad or dangerous to be carried away by our emotions. We admire the person who is cool, who acts without feeling. -- Alexander Lowen
Nothing's more fun than being carried away. -- Jerry Spinelli
These other rappers getting bodied and carried away. -- Drake
Those carried away by power are soon carried away. -- Malcolm Forbes
"I'm sorry, I just got carried away," hissed Aziraphale. -- Terry Pratchett
Getting carried away is stupid, it won't get me anywhere. -Nana Komatsu -- Ai Yazawa
I find it interesting how we get carried away by the dogma a-la-mode. -- Lincoln Diaz-Balart
When I'm carried away, isn't it clear that my heart contradicts my mouth? -- Jean Racine
No matter the time, carried away the wind is Better your absence Thy indifference. -- Serge Gainsbourg
Passion is born when your heart gets carried away with a purpose greater than yourself. -- Roy Spence
We were making love in the back of a truck and we got carried away. -- Spike Milligan
She was giving me oral sex, and she got carried away . . . So I choked her. -- Arthur Shawcross
Fain would I glide down a gentle river, but I am carried away by a torrent. -- Baron de Montesquieu
Enthusiasm is of the greatest value, so long as we are not carried away by it. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Each beat of your heart is a small miracle, you know, so don't get carried away. -- Mathias Malzieu
Who do you think you are, Jane Eyre? Grow up. Be sensible. Don't get carried away. -- David Nicholls
I think 'selfies' are fun and expressive, as long as you don't get carried away with it. -- Trey Songz
Critics get a little carried away with what someone should have done, rather than what he did. -- Duke Ellington
I am a commonsense sort of a person, and I don't get carried away with emotion and fears. -- Gerry Harvey
The great danger of riches is that our affections will be carried away from God to His gifts. -- John Piper
I don't let myself get carried away by my own ideas; I abandon 19 out of 20 of them every day. -- Gustav Mahler
No tempest or conflagration, however great, is harder to quell than mob carried away by the novelty of power. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Sometimes it seemed difficult for the adults in Sophie's life to tell between 'carried away' and 'absolutely correct but unbelieved. -- Katherine Rundell
The secret now is to be disciplined. It's so easy to get carried away with things valued on the hereafter. -- Alan Patricof
When you hear designers complaining about the challenge of their profession, you have to say: don't get carried away-it's only dresses. -- Karl Lagerfeld
I have often found a small stream at its fountain-head, that, when followed up, carried away the camel with his load. -- Saadi
You should not be carried away by the dictation of the mind, but the mind should be carried by your dictation. -- A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
I try hard not to preach, but I get carried away, which is a mistake, but it's a risk worth running. -- Ben Elton
When you win, you don't get carried away. But if you go step by step, with confidence, you can go far. -- Diego Maradona
In order to move others deeply we must deliberately allow ourselves to be carried away beyond the bounds of our normal sensibility. -- Joseph Conrad
Reflect often upon the rapidity with which all existing things, or things coming into existence, sweep past us and are carried away. -- Marcus Aurelius
I like getting carried away by what is happening and then decide each scene based on the actors, the set and the light. -- Benjamin Avila
The German-French friendship is indispensable for Europe. And I will never let myself be carried away to making statements that would change it. -- Francois Hollande
I got very carried away with my 'Harry Potter' life and we did have school but I didn't study. I just had fun. -- Evanna Lynch
Life is fragile, like the dew hanging delicately on the grass, crystal drops that will be carried away on the first morning breeze. -- Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
If you go the way of your thoughts you will be carried away by them and you will find yourself in an endless maze. -- Ramana Maharshi
It is difficult to stop in time because one gets carried away. But I have that strength; it is the only strength I have. -- Claude Monet
Having the ability to get and gain respect through your work is great but you have to be careful not to get carried away. -- Jay Gould
Always try to come back to your senses when in love, because that's the moment you become almost carried away by sensuality and sentiments. -- Michael Bassey Johnson
If a man going down into a river, swollen and swiftly flowing, is carried away by the current - how can he help others across? -- Gautama Buddha
I get drunk writing words. I don't drink or do drugs, but I get so carried away with writing that I get inebriated from it. -- John Shirley
Draw with the brush. Carve the form. Don't be carried away by subtleties of modeling and nice pigmentation at the expense of losing the form. -- John French Sloan
I don't know about everyone else, but I really loved lunch and recess because it was an opportunity to get carried away with your imagination. -- Dichen Lachman
I don't hate you, I love you, you're part of myself, you're my heart and when you go it's my heart torn out and carried away-- -- Orson Scott Card
The crowning evidence that Jesus was alive was not a vacant grave, but a spirit-filled fellowship. Not a rolled away stone, but a carried away church. -- Clarence Jordan
Meditation on inevitable death should be performed daily. Every day one should meditate on being carried away by surging waves, falling from thousand-foot cliffs, dying of disease. -- Yamamoto Tsunetomo
There's my baby!" I cried, quite carried away, "There's my poochiekins!" ... "Sadie," My dad said firmly, "Please do not refer to the devourer of souls as 'poochiekins'. -- Rick Riordan
Happiness is such a fragile thing, isn't it? So easily burst, like a bubble blown by a child, and always on the verge of being carried away. -- Nenia Campbell
I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power. -- Robert Frost
The large white owl that with eye is blind, That hath sate for years in the old tree hollow, Is carried away in a gust of wind. -- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
After I've done a good job, then I can get excited. Obviously, it would be very easy to get carried away, but I wanted to own that excitement. -- Giles Matthey
Don't be carried away by beauty, for the faeces also stays in the rectum of ravishing faces, and their private life is not beautiful as their public life...fear beauty! -- Michael Bassey Johnson
To be interested is to be absorbed in, wrapped up in, carried away by, some object. To take an interest is to be on the alert, to care about, to be attentive. -- John Dewey
Everything stems from real experiences but I do also have a very vivid imagination. A song lyric gets easily carried away with itself and can end up somewhere I'd never have predicted. -- Imogen Heap
I always get carried away when I'm kissing. I just go nuts! Walking away after it is the strangest moment for me. It's embarrassing - not knowing what to say to each other. -- Robert Pattinson
nobody means to get carried away in mediocrity, but it happens, it happens unless you think about everything you do, unless you make every choice the best one you know how to make. -- Richard Bach
Any degree of success or achievement for me is only ever a relief. My version of getting carried away is: 'Mmm, that wasn't as bad as I thought it was going to be.' -- Catherine Tate
Heaven knows that there are plenty of opportunities in later life, too, for being carried away. What of it? We remain what we are and, no doubt, it is all very good for us! -- Knut Hamsun
Real estate cannot be lost or stolen, nor can it be carried away. Purchased with common sense, paid for in full, and managed with reasonable care, it is about the safest investment in the world. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Too often when we're buying or building a house we do not consider each room. We are carried away by one charming feature and are blind to details that will give us trouble later on. -- Dorothy Draper
My parents got carried away with the letter P when they were naming the kids in our family. There's me, Paula, my sisters Peggy and Patty, and my brother Pjimmy, spelled with a silent P. -- Paula Poundstone
To allow oneself to be carried awayBy a multitude of conflicting concerns,To surrender to too many demands,...To commit oneself to too many projects,To want to help everyone with everythingIs to succumb to violence. -- Thomas Merton
Critics have their purposes, and they're supposed to do what they do, but sometimes they get a little carried away with what they think someone should have done, rather than concerning themselves with what they did. -- Duke Ellington
I grew up like a neglected weed, ignorant of liberty, having no experience of it. Then I was not happy or contented: every time I saw a white man I was afraid of being carried away. -- Harriet Tubman
Spiritual health is no more stable than bodily; and though we may seem unaffected by the passions we are just as liable to be carried away by them as to fall ill when in good health. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Not only I lost what I had in the ship, but from the captain and the company generally what was good or worth the taking was carried away; all which was done unknown to the emperor. -- William Adams
They should hold themselves absolutely upon the immovable foundation of truth and nature, whereby alone they can save themselves from misapprehensions and from the danger of being entirely carried away from reality into mere dreams and fictions. -- Ethan A. Hitchcock
I have no regrets about my political activity, only that I sometimes got carried away with it and didn't find the right balance between obligations to my family and my need to be involved in social movements. -- Howard Zinn
Hey listen -- I've proved a lot of things. That's how I pay my rent. Theories and little observations. A puckish remark now and then. Occasional maxims. It beats picking olives, but let's not get carried away. -- Woody Allen
We should celebrate Christmas throughout the year, but I believe the whole concept of giving was the basis of Christmas, that it was a charitable, you know, giving, and I think we got carried away with giving. -- Victoria Osteen
I was never a member of the peace movement or a pacifist, nor was I ever carried away from a demonstration outside a military barracks. Perhaps that's why I don't feel the need to compensate for anything. -- Guido Westerwelle
May I say, for the benefit of those who have been carried away by the gossip of the last few days, that I know what's going on. [pause] I'm going on, and the Labour government's going on. -- Harold Wilson
But try getting blindly carried away by your feelings, without reasoning, without a primary cause, driving consciousness away at least for a time; start hating, or fall in love, only so as not to sit with folded arms. -- Fyodor Dostoevsky
And as it is the most generous souls who have most gratitude, it is those who have most pride, and who are most base and infirm, who most allow themselves to be carried away by anger and hatred. -- Rene Descartes
And gears," said Anathema. "My bike didn't have gears. I'm sure my bike didn't have gears." Crowley leaned over to the angel. "Oh lord, heal this bike," he whispered sarcastically. "I'm sorry, I just got carried away," hissed Aziraphale. -- Terry Pratchett
Maybe... there is a perfectly reasonable explanation for unlawfully detaining 120 people. Maybe they just got carried away with last year's idea of pre-emptive strikes and thought, 'Let's not wait for an actual crime to occur. Let's get the innocent. -- Mark Thomas
When people die and especially when they die tragically, others can't help but get carried away. They come up with their implausible interpretation and usually resort to cheap psychology. A sense of fatalism is the only form of relief left. -- Francesca Marciano
Sometimes when you do fight scenes you think, "Oh, I'll be hit in the face," because people get carried away with their vanity and want to look too cool to care, but we were all really careful with each other. -- Benedict Cumberbatch
Football is such a team sport, so no one individual does it. No one coach or no one assistant coach or no one player, it's a great team sport, so I don't get carried away with a bunch of accolades. -- Jimmy Johnson
I have a couple of basses in my office. And I try to be courteous of my co-workers, but sometimes I get carried away and I crank up my amp and I rock out. It's kind of my stress reliever. -- Lester Holt
I had never known the pleasure of reading, of exploring the recesses of the soul, of letting myself be carried away by imagination, beauty, and the mystery of fiction and language. For me all those things were born with that novel. -- Carlos Ruiz Zafon
I get so carried away in interviews and deliver 1,500-word treatises, then find it's been reduced to something pithier but also not quite accurate. Although I imagine there are people I work with who wish they could edit me every day. -- Bertie Carvel
Out-of-doors there is a greater variety of light than in the studio, where the light is always the same. But that is just the trouble; one is carried away by the light, and besides, one can't see what one is doing. -- Pierre-Auguste Renoir
A quiet mind does not mean that there will be no thoughts or mental movements at all, but that these will be on the surface, and you will feel your true being within, separate from them, observing but not carried away -- Sri Aurobindo
To allow oneself to be carried away by a multitude of conflicting concerns, to surrender to too many demands, to commit oneself to too many projects, to want to help everyone in everything, is to succumb to the violence of our times. -- Thomas Merton
In every aspect of life, including the economic dimension, we are always challenged to do the right thing. In many cases in the market system, which allows a great deal of latitude for human choice, people can get carried away to excess. -- Lee R. Raymond
Time is like a river made up of the events which happen, and a violent stream; for as soon as a thing has been seen, it is carried away, and another comes in its place, and this will be carried away too. -- Marcus Aurelius
When you are drowned by your sorry state, and you feel as if you are carried away from the road that leads to your desires, you should know that you are the one responsible for being led away from the right path. -- Stephen Richards
It is you men who make war! ... We, who have children, would never make it! Why should a woman be broken up in pain, to give her child life, only to see him carried away from her, to make food for guns? -- Phyllis Bottome
Robotics has been around forever, and it's been the next big thing forever, and it is so exciting and compelling that it's easy to get carried away. People almost always do, and that's one of the things that has held back the industry. -- Colin Angle
Designing a website can be a bit like being a kid and inheriting a sweetshop. It's easy to get carried away. There are so many choices. A website can be like an attic that never fills up. Space is not the problem. Attention is. -- Gerry McGovern
I catch fire and find the reserves of courage and assertiveness to speak up. When that happens I get quite carried away. My blood gets hot my brow wet I become unbearably and unconscionably sarcastic and bellicose I am girded for a total showdown. -- William F. Buckley, Jr.
We are going toward the sea. I have swollen. I am carried away. Sometimes at night love comes up so quickly and so high, and if we have no little boat perhaps it is because we want to roll breathless under the ocean floor. -- Helene Cixous
But you know: you know that if I could have stayed, if I could have gone on, that I would have clutched every second: whatever it was, this death, you know that it came and took me, like a child carried away by goblins. -- Audrey Niffenegger
I was carried away, swept along by the mighty stream of words pouring from the hundreds of pages. To me it was the ultimate book: once you had read it, neither your own life nor the world you lived in would ever look the same. -- Sijie Dai
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If somebody'd said before the flight, 'Are you going to get carried away looking at the Earth from the Moon?' I would have say, 'No, no way.' But yet when I first looked back at the Earth, standing on the Moon, I cried. -- Alan Shepard
Coming from a filmy background, I have seen everything growing up, but even at that point of time, it never really fascinated me. I did not like going to my dad's shoots. We were taught not to get carried away with it from a very young age. -- Sonakshi Sinha
My reason teaches me that land cannot be sold. The Great Spirit gave it to his children to live upon. So long as they occupy and cultivate it, they have a right to the soil. Nothing can be sold but such things as can be carried away -- Black Hawk
One of my earliest memories was me singing 'Oh, What A Beautiful Mornin' at the top of my voice when I was seven. I got totally carried away. My grandmother, Sarah, was in the next room. I didn't even realise she was there. I was terribly embarrassed. -- James Taylor
The sea does not belong to despots. Upon its surface men can still exercise unjust laws, fight, tear one another to pieces, and be carried away with terrestrial horrors. But at thirty feet below its level, their reign ceases, their influence is quenched, and their power disappears. -- Jules Verne
I always tried to live my life as though nothing changed. People would say, 'You can have a Rolls-Royce'. I'd say to that, 'What do I want with a Rolls-Royce when I can have a Volkswagen or a bike?' Some people get carried away with the juice. -- Chuck Feeney
I feel it is important not to get overly obsessed and overly carried away with just the physical aspect. There is more to beauty than just the physical appearance. You are also a complete person, and a woman should have an identity beyond just the way she looks. -- Katrina Kaif
My father has developed a tradition of surprising us at some point by appearing in fancy dress. He buys a new costume each year and typically gets carried away. A couple of Christmases ago he appeared in an inflatable sumo outfit. Its endearing, really, and only quite embarrassing. -- Pippa Middleton

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